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| By Gary Snyder - $16.50 - add to cart | |
This richly rewarding book about ecology and technology draws on 40 years of careful thought. Although it does not dwell on information technologies, the points Snyder makes about "a feeling of pla...
| By C. K. Stead - $32.95 - add to cart | |
A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author’s earliest discovery of poetry as a ...
| By Patrick Miles - $16.95 - add to cart | |
Anton Chekhov, who died at 44, produced such classic plays as The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya. This biography follows the life of one of Russia's foremost literary figures from his...
| By Ralph Maud - $19.95 - add to cart | |
Charles Olson was quite possibly the greatest, and without question the most influential, of the “New American Poets” published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century. Synthesizing the expe...
| By Graham Vickers - $27.95 - add to cart | |
In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm—Lolita was published in the United States—and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures...
| By Dimitri Roussopoulos And Andrea Levy - $19.99 - add to cart | |
With the rise of religious fundamentalism worldwide, express disbelief in God(s) has become a taboo. In the last few years, however, atheism has witnessed a resurgence. This book contributes to the...
| By Thomas C. Foster - $14.95 - add to cart | |
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingwa...
| By Hans-georg Gadamer - $24.95 - add to cart | |
This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's "Kleine Schriften, "dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer...
| By Christoph Riedweg - $19.95 - add to cart | |
One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical na...
| By Margaret Somerville - $29.95 - add to cart | |
The Ethical Canary is a major contribution to the debate about the hottest issues in ethics today, from one of the world's leading authorities.
| By Michael Boylan - $30.95 - add to cart | |
Offers an introduction to philosophy, exploring issues to do with ethics, knowledge and aesthetics and how they relate to our everyday lives. This book proposes an understanding of the good, the tr...
| By Niccolo Macchiavelli - $4.50 - add to cart | |
The book has been variously described as the first to analyze the role of the political elite; as the one that established the independence of politics from theology; as an early formulation of the...
| By Michel Foucault - $15.95 - add to cart | |
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher ...
| By David Sedaris - $28.99 - add to cart | |
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever...
| By James Hawes - $26.95 - add to cart | |
James Hawes wants to tear down the critical walls which generations of gatekeepers---scholars, biographers, and tourist guides---have built up around Franz Kafka, giving us back the real man and th...
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